‘Sixteen Candles’ and ‘Breakfast Club’ producer weighs in on ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ sequel: ‘It’s really hard’

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Adam Fields — who worked on ’80s cult classics such as “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club” and 2001’s “Donnie Darko” — spoke to The Post about Rob Lowe’s surprising update that a “St.

Elmo’s Fire” sequel is in the works four decades later.In July, Lowe teased that a sequel to the coming-of-age film, which featured Lowe and co-stars Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson and Andrew McCarthy, was in the “very, very, very, very, very early stages.”Earlier this month, the actor gave a status update.“Everybody wants to do it,” Lowe told Entertainment Tonight in a video posted Feb.

11. “We’re making it happen, you know. The script’s getting written, and then we’re off and running. But gotta write the script — which they’re doing.”At the opening of Tarantino | Pulp Rock at Hollywood Park last week, Fields shared his thoughts about the possible sequel, revealing that some blockbusters are untouchable.

When asked specifically about “St. Elmo’s Fire,” Fields told The Post, “I haven’t read it [the script], and I don’t know what their approach is.